Historical clue formulations

• Moves obliquely — 2025-06-09
• Moves like a crab — 2018-07-10
• Moves with one's back against a wall, say — 2018-06-26
• Moves obliquely — 2014-11-23
• Moves laterally — 2011-08-28
• Is crabby? — 1999-04-23
• Proceeds slyly — 1996-08-24
• Moves furtively — 1995-11-18
• Moves furtively — 1994-08-14